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Mr. Teeter has been the
artistic director of Bread & Water Theatre since he founded the
organization in 2000 while attending Nazareth College of Rochester. At BWT he has directed Dr. Faustus, Night
Passengers, The Yellow Wallpaper adapted by Mr. Teeter and
Marcy J. Savastano from the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The
Little Prince adapted by Mr. Teeter and the Bread & Water
Theatre company of 2003 from the novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
and the world premiere of The Night before the Morning After and The
Lambda Project: An Empty Closet. The latter show is performed
annually at BWT's Rainbow
Theater Festival, a series of theatrical productions devoted
to queer themes and the Rainbow Pride Flag. The
Lambda Project itself is based on the real-life stories of
participants and themes derived from the rainbow flag. Mr. Teeter
helped revive the Rainbow Theater Festival in 2004, providing it with a new
mission statement and goals for the future.
Mr. Teeter also wrote That Kiss
which first premiering at
2004's Rainbow Theater Festival. The
Autobiography of Thorton J. Wright first premiered at Creative
Theatre - Muddy Waters Players as a staged reading. A revised Autobiography
debuted in 2004 at Bread & Water Theatre directed by
Associate Director Carl
Girard. Mr.
Teeter will performed in the role of Stan.
Theatre is an evolutionary
process and Mr. Teeter is no different. Previously accustomed to
adapting well-known novels into theatrical events and creating
fictionalized plays from the ground up, Mr. Teeter has begun to adopt
the ideals of the "Theatre of Testimony" in which real-life sources are
used to create a dramatic work. This evolution can be charted in
the Lambda Project where testimonials were taken in the
construction of a dramatic text and in Autobiography... where the
previously authored speeches of Samuel Clemens were used flesh out the
persona of the late Thorton J. Wright. Two upcoming works
featuring this style of theatre are the
Lambda Project: Every Step May be Fruitful
and
Witnesses of Kitty Genovese.
The latter play is especially poignant in that it follows the murder and
trial of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese a woman killed outside her apartment
building while others looked on and did nothing.
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